And here you thought I had forgotten Women’s History Month. Yes, that oh so special time of the year when we get to celebrate the history that women want us to know about while whitewashing the details they would rather just not see printed in the paper.
And its a cold day in hell when I find myself in agreement with specific papers- by and large not known for their standards-but since this is women’s history month, I find myself falling back on time tested rules of the hunt:
Go Ugly Early
And if they don’t meet your standards, lower your standards.
So yes, while it is the Washington Times, they nonetheless had this little tidbit that caught my attention. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, after all:
Integrating women into combat reduces effectiveness, harms unit cohesion
As the American military prepares to open all combat positions to women by 2016, a British report found that integrating women into combat would reduce effectiveness in battle and could harm unit cohesion.
The British report, released in December, found that physiological differences put women at a disadvantage in both strength-based and aerobic fitness tests. Even women who are able to overcome the physiological disadvantage will likely get injured more easily or get tired quicker, making them easier targets and poorer marksmen in combat.
“These are about biology rather than character,” the report states.
My hero and idol, Elaine Donnelly, pointed out why this is-despite what our feminist friends would have you believe – a big deal.
The Center for Military Readiness said Thursday, however, that even the report’s solutions to problems of women serving in combat were just attempts to “soft-peddle inconvenient facts.”
“Every use of the word ‘mitigate’ in the [Ministry of Defence] report pinpoints a problem, not an advantage,” said Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness. “There are no benefits balancing the weight of costs and risks that detract from combat readiness and effectiveness.”
Besides, since the world is ending ( after all, its a cold day in hell when I like the Washington Times), who needs an army anyway? The world is ending-everything else is moot………
Not to worry though, the report and its conclusions will get fairly well buried and quickly. After all, when it comes to DOD, rule number 1 always applies.
After all:
